Lester held the phone silently, barely hearing a word. It was four months since half of his team vanished through the anomaly, pursuing Helen, never to be seen again. He’d maintained the belief that they’d survived but now… It couldn’t be coincidence.

The skull fragment had recently been unearthed in the Rift Valley, close to the site where the first Hominid remains had been discovered, but this was clearly modern Homosapien.

“…definitely female,” Harry continued. “It’s an extraordinary find! Everything we thought we knew could be rewritten- James, are you still there?”